Patiently Waiting....

Christmas Dress Reveal!

If you read my post from the other day, you'd know I have been 

working on sewing my girls Christmas Dresses 

for the Holiday season.  

I have to admit, despite using a pattern that said VERY EASY... 

I made my share of mistakes!  

However, I am pretty happy with the outcome.  

And I even managed to make a little pair of baby shoes 

for our new little bundle to wear (assuming they fit!).

Eloise was very happy to have a red dress...

 as that is her favorite color. 

 Dinah doesn't care one way or the other!  

(The fabric has little snowmen on it.  I know it's hard to tell)

I haven't been feeling very well today...

woke up feeling icky.

So I am hoping to have a chance to relax a little later on.

Have a great weekend!

We just had our first little spray of snow, 

though luckily it didn't stick!

A Look at Halloween!

The girls are finally over their colds... 

so we were finally able to go "trick or treating"!

That basically means visiting Cory's folks, my folks and sister's family... and making a stop at an Old Folks Home (where my grandma used to live before she passed) to visit the people there.

Unfortunately, I didn't get very good pictures!  It is so hard to get those two to stand still!  But here are several of what I got!  

 (Poor Dinah's head was over-stuffed a bit 

and so her face didn't fit too well!!)

I worked really hard on those costumes.  May seem silly, I know.  They only get to wear them for a short time... but I hope they'll look back someday and appreciate the time and effort I put into it.  And they have been SOOOO excited to wear them.  Dinah has been yelling, "Carebear Countdown!  1, 2, 3, 4, 5!!!"  (She obviously doesn't understand the countDOWN part yet!  haha!)  We got a lot of smiles and ohhs & ahhs at the old folks home.  I am glad Cheer Bear and Funshine Bear could brighten some peoples' days!!

Christmas is Coming! Christmas is Coming!

I am done with my Christmas Shopping... 

decided to wait to wrap until I'm rid of this large belly 

(or as "rid" of it as I can be after only a few weeks postpartum!)  

So, of course I have to work on another project since Halloween is over!

Christmas Dresses for the girls!

Cory doesn't care for the fabric.  

But I think it will be cute when they're all done!  

Paired with white turtle necks and tights... I am hoping it will be

as sweet as I envision!  

I even have a little extra fabric left over that I may make a 

little pair of matching shoes for the baby! :)

I will post pics, of course!

36 Weeks

Here I am... 36 weeks and not even wearing sweatpants today!

That is a major thing around here!  

I usually only wear "other" pants if I'm going out in public

 or I know we'll be having company.  

I mean, who really wants to 

feel constricted by those garsh darn maternity pants?  

So uncomfortable!  

Anyway!

All is well, as far as I know... though I did have some

Braxton Hicks and a few pains yesterday.

They subsided and I didn't have anything much going on today.

My next appointment is Wednesday!

Eloise is sleeping in her "new big girl bed" tonight!!!

 

 Technically it's still a toddler bed... 

but it's not her crib/toddler bed.

We had a little trouble with her being emotionally 

attached to her old bed.

There were several occasions where even suggesting 

a switch brought her to tears.  But then we decided 

to let her help in the decision making

process... and voila!  She was all about it!

She is super excited that there are drawers underneath!

So is Mommy... 

because that means I can clear out a couple of the

drawers in her dresser for Baby #3!

Dinah was enjoying the new bed this afternoon as well. 

She is now sleeping in El's old bed, though we aren't letting her out

of "crib-mode" just yet. 

It's a little bittersweet to have simple things like this change...

but that's life, I suppose!  And we definitely needed

to make room for Baby!

Tomorrow we head to the doctor to check out a rash El 

developed around her mouth.  We went last week and got

 a cream to put on it.  We are hoping to get the All Clear 

(though there is still a little bit of lingering rash)... 

so we can finally take the girls out in their Halloween Costumes.

Yes, I know it's several days late... but I worked so hard on them...

we are going to make some stops to see family and friends.

We don't do candy anyway... so it will just be fun for the girls

to dress up!  I'll be sure to share pics!

Hope you have a wonderful week ahead!